Mrs. Lloyd Halstead Hangs Self in Attic While Husband at Work, April 17, 1923

Woman Is Found Hanged in Attic. . . Mrs. Lloyd Halstead of Weeksville Takes Her Life While Husband Is Away at His Work

Mrs. Lloyd Halstead, aged about 24, hanged herself in the attic of her home Monday afternoon about 2 o’clock.

The Halstead home is half a mile from Salem church in the County. Monday at noon Mrs. Halstead kissed her husband good bye with more than ordinary devotion as he left for his work, but she seemed in her usual health and he had no hit of the deed she contemplated. She was frail in body and highly nervous, but had not been ill recently and on Sunday had attended church.

When Mr. Halstead came home for supper he could not find his wife, but still believed that she was just over at the home of a neighbor. He began asking about her and the search continued until 7 o’clock Monday night when her lifeless body was found hanging in the attic. Dr. R.B. Davis of Weeksville and Dr. Ike Fearing of Elizabeth City were summoned and said that she had probably been dead five hours.

Mrs. Halstead is survived by her husband; by a five-year-old son; by her mother, Mrs. Sarah Parsons of this County; by one sister, Mrs. John Berry of Weeksville; by two brothers, Tom Parsons of Weeksville and Rufus Parsons of Ashbury Park, N.J.; and by four half sisters, Mrs. J.E. Corbett and Mrs. J.W. Stokley of this city, Mrs. Allie Coppersmith of Salem and Mrs. Gertie Jordan of Camden.

From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Tuesday evening, April 17, 1923